{"id":1242,"date":"2006-09-06T23:37:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T02:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2006-09-07T20:28:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T23:28:39","slug":"amsterdamned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdamned !!?<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

F<\/span>or no particular reason, I was reminded of the movie ‘Amsterdamned’ (1988, IMDB description<\/a>), a fine Dutch thriller \/ horror about a scuba diver with a large blade. Or something like that. I can’t really remember the details except for that the title song was sung by a (Dutch) band called Lois Lane<\/a> (Dutch site here<\/a>). The titlesong was a hit then too, with the following brilliant lines:\n<\/p>\n

You can’t hide
\nFrom the monster reptile, ooohooo, yeah
\nAmsterdamned, Amsterdamned, oho
\nThis is Amsterdamned\n<\/p>\n

Not brilliant then, but at least it’s catchy, right? And then there is this Washington Post<\/a> review (1988) that says:\n<\/p>\n

The story is hopelessly stale; even the hairstyles seem time-warped. Supposedly, the film was something of a sensation in Holland, which perhaps says more about the cultural life of the Netherlands than about the movie. The notoriety, I would imagine, is due to some of the director’s more garish touches, like the murder of an attractive, scantily swimsuited young woman in a tiny inflatable boat.\n<\/p>\n

Hey, bud, we’re talking about Amsterdam here: it’s all about boats and scantily dressed people. And scuba divers. Lots of them.\n<\/p>\n

Not completely related: I saw David Lynch got a honourary lifetime achievement award<\/a> at the Venice film festival. The festival also showed Lynch’s latest movie, which ‘includes hallucinatory scenes and a rabbit voiced by Naomi Watts’. Lynch apparently baffled critics by saying that the movie (Inland Empire)<\/a> ‘made perfectly sense’. I think, I’d like to see this movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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